# Overhauling the Dashboard 2.0 Build Pipeline > Explore the latest updates in Dashboard 2.0 with the 0.8.0 release, featuring an overhauled build pipeline, improved debugging capabilities, and more. As a developer, sometimes you have to hold up your hands and realise something you've spent two weeks building needs to be thrown away and restarted. Having shipped the [third-party widget support for Dashboard 2.0](/blog/2023/10/dashboard-integrations/) in line with Dashboard 1.0's approach, we then had the [feedback](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/issues/307) that the way Dashboard 1.0 did things really wasn't good, and asking us to consider re-building the process to make the developer experience of working with Dashboard 2.0 far more seamless. So, that's exactly what we've done with the `0.8.0` release, amongst a few other things.
Reminder: all new releases of Dashboard are now under the `@flowfuse` namespace, so you'll need to update to use `@flowfuse/node-red-dashboard`, and not `@flowforge`.
## Migrating our Build Pipeline Without getting *too* technical, as part of this work in supporting third-party widgets, we overhauled our build pipeline for Dashboard 2.0. This pipeline is responsible for taking our source code, and compiling it into a format that then gets deployed by Node-RED when running Dashboard. Previously, we used *Webpack*, but now, we've switched over to *Vite*. This is a newer build tool, and is much faster than Webpack. It's also what we've now updated out [Example Node](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-example) to use too. So now, when working with a third-party widget, Vite builds up all of your code, wraps it into a single `umd.js` file, and Node-RED then serves that file up for Dashboard 2.0 to load in. ![Vite Build Process](/blog/2023/11/images/dashboard-build.png) We've also re-written our ["Building Third Party Widgets"](https://dashboard.flowfuse.com/contributing/widgets/third-party.html) guide to reflect this change. ## Debugging Dashboard A new feature we've added in `0.8.0` is also for those developing Dashboard's core and third-party widgets. You can now navigate to `/dashboard/_debug` to explore the full configuration that Dashboard receives from Node-RED. This is particularly useful when you're trying to debug why a widget isn't loading, showing the correct data, or generally isn't behaving as you expect. ![Dashboard's Debug View](/blog/2023/11/images/debug-view.png) Note in the above example, where we can see that the `ui-dropdown` has had it's options overriden by `msg.options` on injection. You can read more about the debugging view [here](https://dashboard.flowfuse.com/contributing/widgets/debugging.html) ## What else is new in 0.8.0? Whilst we focussed this article on the build pipeline overhaul, changes to third-party wdgets and debugging Dashboard, we did also squeeze quite a lot more into the 0.8.0 releases too with plenty other fixes and improvements: - [Dynamic setting of msg.options for UI Dropdown](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/pull/345) - ["Date" type for UI Text Input](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/pull/346) - [Finer grain controls of Text Input event emissions](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/pull/365) - [Control over when UI Slider emits events](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/pull/367) - [Improved documentation for Bar Charts](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/pull/364) You can also read the more comprehensive release notes for the release here: - [0.8.0 Release Notes](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/releases/tag/v0.8.0) ## Follow our Progress As always, thanks for reading and your interested in Dashboard 2.0. If you have any feature requests, bugs/complaints or general feedback, please do reach out, and raise issues on our relevant [GitHub repository](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard). - [Dashboard 2.0 Activity Tracker](https://github.com/orgs/FlowFuse/projects/15/views/1) - [Dashboard 2.0 Planning Board](https://github.com/orgs/FlowFuse/projects/15/views/4)